The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 14, 1953, Page 3

NEW YORK COLISEUM BUILDING TO RIVAL FAMED EMPIRE STATE Abbott And Costello Argue Continually In, GIMBEL PREDICTS COLISEUM WILL ADD 50 TO 100 MILLION DOLLARS TO CITY By CHARLES CHUCKROW NEW YORK (# — New York's famed tourist attractions—the Em- State Building, Rockefeller and United Nations Head- quarters—may soon get some new competition. have been made to build dollar pro: whic! coliseum and eéxhi- F uerT FE cclttratet Bw : unanimously approved by the Board of Estimate and is now before the Federal Hous- and Home Finance Agency in Washington. Under the National Housing Act the federal govern- was city ‘ exposition arden, 0,000, fs Grand’ Con a ,000 sq. ft.; Grand Cen- tral Palace, 180,000; and the Col- |» 225,000. arrangement of seats is so * the committee reported, “that any type of convention or exhibition can be accommodated. considera’ has been handling several affairs at attendant movement are slums gi¢.foumercial build- ings. are more than 500 families living in the buildings, many of which are run down. Some of the tenants are in low income ER and therefore entitled te om bs oleesl bi u bace ip in g g re- located, Plans for the two apartment buildings specify they will be 12 stories high and have 1,688 rooms. By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD — Bud Abbott and Lou Costello argue so much that sometimes you can’t tell when it’s part of the act and when it’s for real. Irealized this when I had lunch with them during a break in their TV rehearsal. They were accom- panied by a large audience, con- sisting of their producer, writers, etc., and both boys were in good argumentive form. I realized this when I had lunch cheese. Bud was having a dish of Lim- burger with raw onion as a chaser. This pained Lou, who put a nap- kin over the fragrant repast. “It’s dead,” said Lou. ‘Let's give it a decent burial.” “Cut it out!” snapped Bud. “That cheese doesn’t smell.” This touched off a heated exchange that lasted several minutes. After the battle cvoled off, I put forth the question of whether it’s harder to make the public laugh today. ‘ “Absolutely,” replied Bud. “With all the war and taxes and unrest in the world, people don’t laugh as readily as they used to.” “I disagree,” countered Lou, who used to be the fat one but has slimmed down to Abbott’s size. ‘I think people are more eager to laugh than ever before—because of all their troubles.” “You're nuts,” answered Bud. “T’ll tell you another reason it’s harder to make people laught to- day. Thanks to TV, more people are getting more entertainment than ever before in history. Some- thing’s got to be really funny or they’ll switch the dial to another program.” They argued this back and forth for a while. About the only thing they could agree on was: TV is wonderful, “Ten or 12 years ago, we'd get mobbed wherever we went because of our movies,” Lou remarked. “After a few years, that sort of thing died down. But now we're getting it all over again. “I just took a trip east. When .over in Chicago, I had my way through the kids. walked through the lobby the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, it was a mob scene. “The same thing happens here in town. I used to take my kid to the amusement park with no trouble at all. Now I can’t go there, unless I want to sit down and write autographs for an hour.” Both comics agreed that they the Times Square amusement sec- tion and not too far from Fifth Avenue’s shopping district. Bernard F. Gimbel, president and chairman of the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau, estimated the coliseum would bring to New York City an annual period 100 million dollars now spent uc CLEARANCE NOW GOING AT Out Of Act work hard for the new revival of | their careers. Their show looks | like a breezy, easy hour. But, Lou | % 4 By JACK BELL WASHINGTON (@-in a move ‘toward a bipartisan foreign policy, :|John Foster Dulles has proposed »-{\to discuss Korea and other prob- lems with Senate Foreign Rela- tions Committee members shortly eal after inauguration. said, “I'd rather make a feature | picture than do one live show on TV. “TV is actually harder work than. pictures. Before starting to prepare for a show, I go in train. ing—just like a prize fighter. I’m | constantly working on new ideas for the show.” The boys are keeping up their strenuous schedule. During the rest of the year, they will do sev- eral more live TV hours, 26 half. hour films for TV, two or three movies for theaters and also play the E] Rancho Vegas in Las Vegas, their first night club date in sev. eral years, Don’t they ever run out of ma- terial? “That doesn’t worry us,” an- swered Bud. “Why, when we were in burlesque, we played the same theater for five years, changing the show every week. We’ve got enough material to last us as long as we live.” Two House Gov't For Yugoslavia BELGRADE (®) — Yugoslavia’s Parliament adopted unanimously Tues. a new constitution setting up a two-house system of government. It paves the way for election by the lawmakers — probably tomor- row--of Premier Marshal Tito as the country’s first president. Tito was present at the ses- sion which came as a climax of more than a year’s work by a spe- cial legislative committee on con- stitutional reforms. Today’s session probably will bring to a temporary end the ac- tivities of this Parliament. The lawmakers will meet later to ar- range for new parliamentary elec- tions to be held in May, EVELYN KEYES OWED 1$20,000 IN ALIMONY LOS ANGELES — Director John Huston is $20,000 behind in his alimony payments, his ex-wife, movie actress Evelyn Keyes, con- tends. Miss Keyes asked Superior Court yesterday to order Huston to com- ply with a predivorce financial agreement. She says he agreed to pay her $42,500 in weekly install- ments, plus $7,500 as her share of community property, and $10,000 a year if her professional earnings dropped below that sum. The actress said she has re- ceived nothing in a six-month pe- riod from last Feb. 7 and earned nothing in that time as an actress, She claims Huston owes her $20,- 000, plus interest, and $6,000 at- torney’s fees, ‘SALE LISAN SHOES NATIONALLY ADVERTISED LADIES DRESS SHOES FORMERLY $12.95 - $15.95 FLATS FORMERLY $8.95 . $9.95' now $910.95 now $6.99 COME EARLY FOR BEST SELECTION OF SIZES LISAN #16 BUVAL ST. SHOES 'P. MONROE THEATRE ANOTHER CONTESTANT for the March of Dimes queen title is Mrs. E, Sellers, 172-F Poin- ciana Place. Philly Is Hit By Crippling Strike Today PHILADELPHIA (#—Nine thou- sand Philadelphia Transportation Company workers went on strike today, sending 2% million transit riders in search of other modes of travel. The walkout began at midnight as cashiers on the Broad Street subway and Frankford elevated lines stopped accepting fares, giv- ing some late customers an unex- pected free ride. The shutdown was completed shortly before 1 a.m. as trolley, subway and bus operators pulled into .barns and garages from outlying runs. To meet the extraordinary crush, railroads and taxi companies ad- ded to their facilities and motor- ists got the family car out of the garage to pick up friends and fel- low employes on their way to work, Industrial firms rushed com- pany trucks into service and the joint committee of the armed forces in the Philadelphia area brought every available bus and truck into play. Despite these measures, howev- er, many a stenographer and fac- tory workers was bound to be late on the job this morning. The walkout came as a surprise to some this morning. They went to bed last night under the im- pression an agreement reached by union and company negotiators would stand up. The agreement was announced jointly earlier in the day by Mich- ael J. Quill, international president of the Trasport Workers Union, and Albert M. Greenfield, princi- pal company negotiator, after a day-long session in the City Hall office of Mayor Joseph S. Clark Jr. The proposed pact called for three pay increases, totaling 21 cents an hour, spread over the next year and a half, coupled with gradual reduction in the work week from the present 48 hours to 40. PTC employes now average $1.67 an hour. Immediately after that meeting, Quill left for New York, where he is directing a two-week-old walk- out of bus operators. Terms of the agreement were submitted last night to the rank- and-file members of TWU Local 24. In a stormy mass meeting PTC workers voted on a standing count to reject the agreement and strike at midnight. JOIN THE MARCH OF DIMES The new secretary of state prob- ably will come before the com- mittee at an informal session Fri- day, and some members said they want to hear more then about his 3 projected trip to Europe. x6 ‘ Chairman Wiley (R-Wis) called the committee together today for approval of his plan for advance questioning of Dulles and Harold E. Stassen, slated to be mutual assistance administrator, so that their nominations can be acted upon inauguration day. James Hagerty, press secretary for President-elect Eisenhower, an- nounced in New York yeSterday that Dulles and Stassen will go to Europe late this month at Eisen- hower’s request to get information “in relation to U. S. participation in NATO and in economic assist- acne.” While this trip might delay the proposed conference, Dulls_ is known to have told Capitol Hill friends he wants to discuss world |problems—particularly Korea — squared away in his new job. Se- lected Democrats apparently would be included in such discussions. This may provide the lawmakers with their first insight into what plans Eisenhower has made since his December visit to the Far East with them as soon as he gets| Your ‘53 Florida tag for the auto is due... We can make you a loan for this and other necessities, Town Finance Co. Of Key West 604 DUVAL Wednesday, January 14, 1953 toward bringing the war in Korea to a close. In a statement yesterday, Wiley promised to work for a bipartisan policy and said he will insist that there be “full representation for the minority” in conferences with the State Department. ‘ Sen. Taft (R-Ohio), a new mem- ber of the foreign relations group, said he expects Dulles will be asked to outline his European visit agenda at Friday’s meeting. Dulles, an expert on Japan through his negotiation of that country’s peace treaty, probably will be questioned by the foreign relations group about the U. S, decision backing up a Japanese warning that Russian planes vio- F. E. LIEBERMAN FRED J. DION THE KEY WEST CITIZEN DIRECTORS ROBERT H. GARRISON EUGENE ANHEIR J. Y. PORTER, IV ARMANDO COBO DAVE KING CARL BERVALDI OFFICERS FRED J. DION __. PRESIDENT ROBERT H. GARRISON ~~ EXEC. V-PRES. [DULLES HOPES TO CREATE BIPARTISAN FOREIGN POLICY; TO DISCUSS KOREA Page 3 lating her borders will be. shot down. The Japanese action, backed by U. S. armed might, was applauded by influential senators. And both Republican and Democratic mem- bers of the House Armed Serv- ices and Foreign Affairs Commit- tees agreed in approving the Jap- anese warning and in predicting Congress would support it, if necessary. i Sen. Wiley said that if Ameri- can planes shoot down such intrud- ers, “We will be acting strictly within our rights.” “International law is on the side of the Japanese,” he said. ‘This is just another example of the Kremlin’s lawlessness.” Sen. H. 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